§ The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Paul Boateng)I am pleased to announce that 48 bids from across the public and voluntary sectors have been successful in Round 5 of the Invest to Save Budget at a cost of £32 million including consequential funding for the devolved Administrations, and £28 million in total over the 3 years to 2005–06. The attached table describes the winners of this round.
The Invest to Save Budget (ISB) is a joint Treasury/ Cabinet Office initiative. It provides support for projects which increase the extent of joint working between different parts of government, identify innovative ways of delivering public services and reduce the cost of delivering the services and/or improve the quality and effectiveness of services delivered to the public. This is the fifth round of the ISB which started in 1999.
It is expected that a total of £354 million will be spent on ISB projects over the period from 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2004. Round One was restricted to central government departments and their agencies. In the second and third rounds local authorities, police and fire authorities, health authorities, non-departmental public bodies and public corporations could also apply. In the fourth round, voluntary sector bodies were able to apply for the first time. The fifth round continues the partnership and innovation themes and is encouraging effective project and risk management.
Winning projects have to agree an implementation plan with the sponsor departments. Each project has to provide six-monthly progress reports and carry out an evaluation of its success once it has been completed. Wider dissemination of the good practice from completed projects is then fed back into the whole spectrum of public service providers.
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Lead Partner Title Central Government Cabinet Office Development of generic electronic forms to drive forward delivery of citizen focused Cabinet Office transactional services. Cabinet Office CV Bank and Job-Matching systems for civil DCMS service recruitment DCMS Modernise the British Library's document supply service DEFRA Emergency sub-sea hazard location facility DEFRA Electronic Public Register to enable public participation in environmental decision making processes DOH Rapid diagnosis of patients with Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) and to develop electronic tools for the surveillance of MRSA in hospitals.
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Lead Partner Title DOH Integrated Care Records project will implement, in electronic form across specialist mental health care, education, primary care, and social services: multi-agency assessment/ referral templates that communicate clinical information. DTI CHAMELEON—to develop a comprehensive e-service on employment related regulations DTI Web based bankruptcy applications. DFT e-Business Management Information and service delivery System for the Forum for Mobility Centres (MAVIS) FCO e-administration for Chevening scholarship applications HM Customs & Excise Development of a web-driven 'alert' system to push multi-department messages relevant to importers and exporters, directly to the target audience, improving Government-wide customer service. Home Office RESTART Project—resettlement project designed to break the cycle of re-offending and custody of adult offenders. Home Office The Hope Project—targets prison inmates who have committed serial crime. The aim is to release offenders back into the community under close supervision, thereby, breaking the cycle of further drug abuse, and the commission of further crime Home Office Joint National Asylum Service/UK Immigration Service to detect and deter illegal working by removing offenders and reducing fraud. Home Office Project Vanguard—provision of e-communications on policing services that allows the public to transact e-business with the Kent Police Force Home Office Lost and Stolen Passport Database Home Office Project PLX—pilot electronic link from the Criminal Records Bureau to police forces to enable enhanced disclosure checks. Home Office Increasing customer focus of the police service Home Office South West Integration (SWING)—project to establish a pioneering dual prison/probation regional resettlement unit to help reduce prisoner re-offending HM Treasury Banking across the Chancellor's Departments Lord Chancellor's Department Access to registered users to information held at the DVLA Lord Chancellor's Department Reducing Offending Through Advice (ROTA)-providing social welfare and legal advice services to prisoners via intranet and video conferencing services to link prisoners with advice providers. Lord Chancellor's Department Pilot for Child Contact Centre—to test arrangements designed to ensure that children and their families (where the parents relationship has ended) are referred to child contact centres. Lord Chancellor's Department Electronic Forms—improve access to civil and family justice for the citizen by providing an internet-based transaction channel to court forms.
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Lead Partner Title MOD Critical rainfall thresholds for pluvial flooding. MOD To demonstrate a non-invasive drug detection capability to improve drug detection in the UK. ODPM To modernise the system for revaluing business rates by using the Internet. ODPM Website to provide businesses, individuals, local authorities and others with a path through ERDF information and application process and guidance on and State aid legislation. Local Authorities Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council Portable Intuitive Verbal Assessment tool (PIVAT)—to develop a portable assessment tool that will reduce duplication and delay and replace 'paper based' health and social care assessments. Hampshire County Council Improving facilities for the public for notifying highway problems though the creation of a web based form and creation of an Interchange facility between Local authorities and Hampshire County Council. London Connects Development of a comprehensive and modular `e-democracy' tool kit. To enable London boroughs to consult citizens on-line on policy development and service planning. Stockport Borough Council On-line transactional counselling service Southampton City Council Electronic co-ordination of inter-agency referral systems and some centralised aspects of service delivery for social care in Southampton South Yorkshire Partnership Transport Authority RESPOND—pilot of a demand responsive transport service in an area of multiple deprivations in Rotherham City of Sunderland Council Amalgamation of citizen's personal details held by various local public services, then providing capacity for individuals to access their own information on- line using digital signatures to ensure accuracy of information. Westminster City Council Project to establish a database containing immigration and local authority information on unaccompanied asylum seeking children Voluntary and Community Sector Advice Sendee Alliance A pilot to test the use of on-line services to support a self-help approach to dealing with legal problems. Bridgewater College Skills for Life—a project to pilot a life skills initiative focused on first time offenders. Charity Commission for E & W Guidestar UK-project to build a shared and accessible website reporting the activities, finances and performance of voluntary sector organisations Construction Industry Training Board Electronic testing and certification process for Gas Engineers. Derby College More than on-line Registration (MOTOR)—to provide on-line attendance and achievement system accessible and responsive to learners. Registration data will be updated in the classroom enabling early warning of non-attendance. Hampshire coalition of Disabled People Equipment Direct-project to provide informed advice to disabled people about independence enabling equipment
Lead Partner Title London Quadrant Housing Trust Neighbournet Housing Benefit Module—to establish the viability of automating the payment of housing benefit from local authority to registered social landlord. Manchester Metropolitan University Arts in Health—to provide arts based products for the NHS to enhance patient care. Using art to promote public health. National Children's Bureau Children's Centre project -brings together a consortium of children's charities in order to improve the quality of their current services, develop new joint services and prepare a common building. NEL Workforce Development Confederation Refugee Health Professionals—pilot project to develop a website to support health professionals who wish to re-qualify to work in the UK. South East London Shared Services Partnership London-Wide Child Protection on Line (CPoL)—to provide electronic access to social services child protection registers to NHS Hospitals across London.